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Advances and challenges n conversational recommender systems: A survey - 2021

Advances And Challenges N Conversational Recommender Systems: A Survey

Research Area:  Machine Learning

Abstract:

Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been heavily used in a widerange of industry applications. However, static recommendation models are difficult to answer two important questions well due to inherent shortcomings: (a) What exactly does a user like? (b) Why does a user like an item? The shortcomings are due to the way that static models learn user preference, i.e., without explicit instructions and active feedback from users. The recent rise of conversational recommender systems (CRSs) changes this situation fundamentally. In a CRS, users and the system can dynamically communicate through natural language interactions, which provide unprecedented opportunities to explicitly obtain the exact preference of users. Considerable efforts, spread across disparate settings and applications, have been put into developing CRSs. Existing models, technologies, and evaluation methods for CRSs are far from mature. In this paper, we provide a systematic review of the techniques used in current CRSs. We summarize the key challenges of developing CRSs in five directions: (1) Question-based user preference elicitation. (2) Multi-turn conversational recommendation strategies. (3) Dialogue understanding and generation. (4) Exploitation-exploration trade-offs. (5) Evaluation and user simulation. These research directions involve multiple research fields like information retrieval (IR), natural language processing (NLP), and human-computer interaction (HCI). Based on these research directions, we discuss some future challenges and opportunities. We provide a road map for researchers from multiple communities to get started in this area. We hope this survey can help to identify and address challenges in CRSs and inspire future research.

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Author(s) Name:  Chongming Gao, Wenqiang Lei, Xiangnan He, Maarten de Rijke, Tat-Seng Chua

Journal name:  AI Open

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Publisher name:  Elsevier B.V.

DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiopen.2021.06.002

Volume Information:  Volume 2, 2021, Pages 100-126